Mike The Fish Guy

I’ve used Mike for several years. He takes care of my 125 gallon salt water reef aquarium. He’s always provided a great cleaning service. He is also very knowledgeable when it comes to solving issues that come up with my tank.

Professional and courteous service. Mike is very knowledgeable, works very efficiently, and constantly continues to answer my questions all throughout the process. Very detail orientated and would highly recommend him to any friends, family, or businesses in my circle.

Mike has been cleaning my pond for about 6 months now and I couldn’t be happier. My fish are happy and healthy and he is always a pleasure to work with. He shows up on time and always does a fantastic job. I had a sick Koi fish when I first called him and he brought it back to health! I won’t trust anyone else with the care and maintenance of my pond because there simply is no one better.

My family and I are new to world of fish and Mike’s name was given to us by friends who also currently use his service. I made two calls to potential business and left messages with both individuals. Mike returned our call within 30 minutes and actually took time to answer my questions, and there were several! I told Mike I was waiting for another return call and that I would contact him shortly. I didn’t have that great of experience with the other call and after doing some research I decided to go with Mike.
This is was the BEST decision I made!!!
Mike was timely and professional and because he was so thorough answering my questions via our previous phone call when he did his initial inspection he was spot on with the problem. Mike has been servicing our tank for several months now and I wanted to share share how great his service is. We are very glad that our friends gave us this referral and for Mike who has been top notch in regarding our tank, even making a emergency visit outside of his regular scheduled time to service our tank.
Thanks Mike the Fish Guy!!!

I have been using Mike for years on end to clean my tank. He is a knowledgeable person when it comes to you water quality and fish selections of what can go in the tank. If your wanting top notch advice from someone that cares about the way your tank looks then don’t hesitate to call Mike!!!

If you want your fish to live, don’t use Mike the fish guy. I’m not one for bad Unilocal reviews but this is one that is needed. The company I work for has used him two times over the course of two and half months to service a small, tropical fish aquarium.
To begin with he didn’t show up when scheduled, both times. Then the water, filter and entire tank was not properly set-​up or cleaned. Just three weeks after the last cleaning you could not see through the water, it smelled like a fish was decaying, and all the fish were sitting at the top of the water, barely moving. At this point he was not available for an emergency service so another company was called in. It took them two hours of cleaning, almost an entire water change, proper set up of the tank and instructions for how to maintain the tank until another visit (from this new company). Immediately the fish were away from the top, active like when we first got them, and the tank looks cleaner than I’ve ever seen it.

First experience with Mike was fantastic. He got back to me within 10 minutes of texting him, he was super friendly and super helpful. Even called an aquarium shop to get information for me and then called me back when he had answers.
I told him I needed his help setting up my tank and he said sure. We set a day, and then he said he would call to confirm. Never called… Texted him a week later and he never texted me back. Still waiting to hear from him… I’m very disappointed since I really needed some help and he seemed very cool at first. Not really sure what happened…
Maybe you’ll have better success with him…

Mike was the one to reach out to me for another service so I replied back and never got a response. I followed up and he would finally choose when to reply back and times I had to send multiple emails over the course of a week before he replied. He stated he would let me know by that evening, two days later, no reply so I send another email. Finally he confirms for Friday evening at 7pm. I reply back asking him to really confirm because I don’t want to be waiting on a Friday evening (now I don’t trust his reliability) and he assures me it’s set. Come Friday morning he emails me he has to cancel with me because he doesn’t want to cancel any of his regular appointments. If he had appts he would’ve already known in advance and not schedule me days ahead and then cancel! Makes me feel like he found better appointments!
So I searched Unilocal and found Aquarium Services in Fullerton. Received an immediate call back and we set an appt. I wanted to do regular business, especially now I have a pond and a saltwater tank, with Mike but he was unreliable.
What a waste of time, find someone else who’s reliable!

We have used Mike to service our office’s fish tank in orange for longer then I can remember. We have a 160 Gallon Salt-​Water tank and without Mike it would be a mess. We have occasionally had to call him when we thought something was wrong and hes always taken care of us and the Tank always looks amazing. Thanks you Mike, highly recommended.

The company I work for has been using Mike for about six months. He has always shown up when he said he would, and our tank looks amazing. In addition, he’s made several great recommendations about what corals and fish we should add to our tank. He’s very professional and his pricing is reasonable. I highly recommend his services!

Mike has been maintaining my fish tank for a few months now and it has been awesome! He has completely helped me get my green bubble algae and red slime problem under control and is always neat and organized. He even added live seaweed in my tank for a nice look. Great guy and great business! Thanks mike!

I’ve had 200+ gallon fish tanks for almost 20 years now. For the last 11 I’ve used a service, and it’s been tough in the down economy. Mike came to me when things were good and stuck with me through when they were not so good. His level of excellence never wavered. From emergency calls to regular service Mike keeps my 300 going strong, shows up when he’s supposed to and does so affordably. The ability to pay through paypal makes it even easier. The tank always looks great and he keep sit the showpiece it has become in my home.

Mike the fish guy has been coming to my business for the last 3 years. His service has been outstanding, he even transported our fish tanks when we moved from our old location in orange to our current location in Anaheim. He even answers the phone on the weekends when you have an emergency, can’t ask for better service. If you ever want to see proof you can come on down to my business, were Best Moving Service in Anaheim and check out the work mike has done for me with my tank! Thanks Mike.

Our company used Mike the Fish Guy to service the fish tank at our office for awhile but he has become quite unreliable. He would come by monthly to service the fish tank but eventually just stopped showing up unless we called to tell him to come in. We’d also call him if there were any issues with the tank or fish that came up.
I’m not sure what’s been going on with him but lately it’s been rather frustrating to have to deal with him. There was an issue with the filter and when I called him about it he said he would come in that day… except he never showed up. When I called him he said he wouldn’t be able come in that day, it seemed like he completely forgot that he said he’d come or try to come in. I honestly didn’t think he’d be able to come in right away when I called so I was pleasantly surprised when he said he’d come in or try to come in. It was fine that he couldn’t that day, but he could have at least let us know he wouldn’t be able to make it. This continued for over a week where he kept saying he would come in but then with a myriad of excuses on why he would not be able to come in. They ranged from «I have too many jobs» to «I have a broken leg.» Also, this was me calling him asking when he planned on coming into our office not him calling in saying that he wouldn’t be able to come in like he said he would.
My coworker told me that he finally showed up unannounced but no one was at the office at the time. She said he conveyed this to her in an angry phone call. A rude phone call made to a client? Yeah, real classy… so a bad experience=a bad review!